The long-running battle between TMA Australia to seek redress and compensation from the Philippines Charity Sweepstake Office over their collapsed JV has taken another turn, with TMA now setting up a war chest to continue the fight.

Prince Harry’s controversial memoir Spare has smashed the record for autobiographies in Australia, outselling the previous bestseller by more than three times, delivering a production bonanza to local printer Griffin Press.

The Australasian Promotional Products Association has launched its Trade Show Calendar for the year, which includes capital city roadshows, and the Australian and New Zealand promo shows.

From a farm in Zimbabwe to one of Australia’s most advanced printshops, complete with sheetfed B2 inkjet Fujifilm Jetpress, it’s been quite a journey for the Games family.

The federal government wants to ditch printing the Voice referendum information pamphlet, which would run to multiple pages and go to 9.3 million households, making it by far the biggest print job of the year, if it were to be printed.

Some 37 staff at Opal’s Maryvale Mill have been stood down, with a further 120 about to face the same fate, as production at Australia’s only printing papers manufacturing plant grinds to a halt.

Kodak will debut its Kodak Prosper Ultra 520 Press high-speed digital production printing press, and show its end-to-end workflow management, at Hunkeler InnovationDays 2023 next month.

Major NSW mailing house MMW3degrees has shocked the industry by going into administration this morning, the move coming as other mailing houses report record-breaking months.

The country’s two big heatset print businesses became one, with IVE spending $16m to acquire substantially all of the assets of its stricken rival Ovato. There were plenty of other industry mergers in the year.

Both Ball & Doggett and Spicers are assuring the commercial print market that they have alternate supply lines to the 1000 tonnes a week of UWF that was being produced for local printers at the Maryvale Mill. Copy paper suppliers though are in crisis mode.

Industry solutions supplier Currie Group is set to take its Horizon by Appointment event around the country, following its successful Melbourne event last week.

Fast-expanding regional NSW operation Print Storm is making another growth step, acquiring the biggest printer in Orange, GK Craig Printing, to add to its Dubbo and Mudgee operations.

A new generation of leaders is stepping into key roles at Currie Group, continuing a process of modernisation that looks to an exciting future, built on the solid foundations of the past.

PVCA is urging printers to complete a new skills survey it is launching, which it will then use to lobby the new government to re-instate the nine print awards into the Australian Apprenticeships Priority List. They were sensationally dropped by the previous government.

Digital Print Australia and Enviro Print were among the winners at the Asia Pacific Fujifilm Business Innovation Awards, in the Catalogue and POS categories respectively.

Paul Plunkett, flexographic printer from Pakaflex, has been named LIA Victoria’s 2022 Graduate of the year, with Jacinta Allen, who works in prepress at Breen Printing, this year’s runner up.